Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-05-07
ENCOURAGEMENT for the Industrious but No
Solace for 1dlers.
Human Ambition Not to Be Quenchea but
Directed.
Young Men for Temporary Advantage
Should Not Give Up Character.
Millions Gathered from the Blood and
Muscle of Half Paid Labor.
Time Coming When Women Will Be Paid
the Sama al Men.
Time Coming When Women Will Be Paid
the Same as Men.
BRHIND TIE

apr Ef'--hl l~.o wv
nacle this morning., the pastor Rev. /.
Dewitt Talmage, ID. ID read from the
Book of Proverbs some lessons about
honest tn, 1T. He then gave out the
hymn beginning:
"The strife will not be long
This day the noise of battle,
The next the vlctor's song"
The boy choir chanted an opening
and closing selection. DR.. Talmage's
discourse was entitled, Behind the
Counter; or, Trials and Encourage
ment of Statesmen and Saleswomen."
He took the two following passages as
his text:
"And a certain woman named Lydia, n
seller Of purple, Of the city OF Thyatira, which
worshipped God, heard US; whose heart the
Lord opened. "-Acts xvi. IA
''Seest thou a man diligent In his business'
he shall stand before gs."--Froverps
xxi. -.
The preacher said:
The first passage introduces to you
Lydia, a Christian merchantess. Her
business is to deal in purple cloths or
silks. She is not a giggling nonentity,
but a practical woman, not ashamed to
work for her living. All the other
women Of Phillippi and Thyatira have
been forgotten; but God has made i'm
mortal in our text, Lydia the Christian
saleswoman.
The other text shows you - mar
with head, and hand. and heart, and
foot all busy toiling on up until he
gains
PRINCELY SUCCESS.
Seest thou a man diligent in his
businessP he shall stand before
kings" Great encouragement IN these
tive passages for men and women who
will be busy. but no solace for those
who are waiting for good luck to show
them. ut the foot Of the rainbow, n
casket Of buried gold. 1t is folly for
anybody in this world TO wait for some
thing to turn up. 1t will turn down.
The law OF thrift is IA inc .orable as
the law of the tides. Fortune. the ma
gician. may wave her arm in that di-
rection until castles and palaces come;
but she will, after nv hile, invert the
same wand and all the splendors will
vanish into thin air. There are certain
styles of behavior which lead to useful
ness, honor and
PERMANENT SUCCESS,
and there are certain sty les OF behav-
Tor which lead TO dust, dishonor and
moral default. / would like to fire the
ambition of the young people. | have
nc sympathy with those who would pre-
pare young folks for life by whiting
down their expectations. That man
or woman will be worth nothing to
church or state who begins life cowed
down. The business of Christianity is
not to q~uench, but to direct human am
bition. Therefore it is, that | come out
this morning and utter words of encour-
agement to those who are occupied as
clerks in the stores, and shops, and
banking-horses of the country. You
say: why select one class and talk to
one specially this morningp" For the
same reason that a physician does not
open the door of a hospital and throw
in a bushel of prescriptions. saying:
''Coms, now, and get your medicine. y
He first feels the pulse, watches the
symptoms, and then prescribes for that
particular case. So, to-day, | must be
specific. The people in this audience
who are clerks are not IN exceptional
class. They belong TO a great com
pany of tens of thousands who are in
this country, amid circumstances
which will either make or break them
o TIME N FOR ETERNITY.
l should be very slow to acknowl-
edge that the CLERKS, male
and female, of other cities, are
n more honest or faithful than
the clerks of our W city. Many of
these people have already achieved a
Christian manliness and a Christian
womanliness which will be their pass
port to any position. have seen their
trials. / have watched their perplrx-
tiles. There are evils abroad which
need to be hunted down and dragged
out into the MONDAY light.
In the first place, | counsel clerks to
remember that for the most part their
clerkship
Is ONLY A SCHOOL
from which they are to be graduated.
1t takes about eight years to get one